The tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg: height, how many floors. Lakhta Center

Beautiful St. Petersburg is difficult to imagine a city of skyscrapers, but high-rise construction is rapidly breaking into the city of Petra. His first "swallow" will soon be the majestic "Lakhta Center." The Leningrad Tower will not be an ordinary skyscraper, but the second tallest among similar Russian and European structures, bypassing the "Federation" in "Moscow City" and second only to the Ostankino TV tower. While the building is under construction, there is time to learn interesting details about it.

General idea of the project

"Lakhta Center", "Lakhta Center" (both spellings are correct) is a public-business complex currently under construction. Its scale explains the fact that the key object of the skyscraper will be the headquarters of the largest Russian corporation Gazprom. The location of the complex is the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. The construction of the tower was started in 2012. Its full completion is planned in the III quarter of 2018.

The maximum planned height of the tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg with an antenna / spire is 462 m. The upper level of the latest floor will be located 372 m above the ground. The weight of the structure with filling will be 670 thousand tons. The complex will include not only the tower, but also a multifunctional building that will divide into the northern and southern part of the atrium. The total area of the future structure will be 400 thousand m ² . How many floors are in the tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg? The final amount will be 87. The building will be serviced by 102 elevators.

The course of construction of the tower

Let's touch on the key stages of the construction of the tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg:

• 2013 - ditch for the building was dug.
• 2014 - completion of the construction of the excavation, the beginning of piling.
• 2015 - the completion of the so-called zero construction cycle: the manufacture of a box foundation, reinforcement and concreting of negative floors.
• 2015-2016. - erection of the first 50 floors of the skyscraper and 7 floors of the MFZ.
• February 2017 - the 60th floor (260 m) was built.
• April 2017 - work on the construction of the 67th floor (300 m).
• May 10, 2017 - reaching a mark of 327.6 m and 78 floors, the skyscraper became the tallest building in the northern capital, "overtaking" the television tower. The latter held this title for 55 years.

The concept of the project "Lakhta Center"

According to the project team, this tower, aimed at the sky like a rocket at the start, located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, will form by its appearance and filling new standards of life of the city:

• Developed social infrastructure;
• Modern offices that meet all of the world's environmental requirements;
• Convenient public spaces;
• An abundance of green areas;
• Pedestrian and transport accessibility.

The main task of the so-called "Gazprom" tower in St. Petersburg is to rid the historical center of business and business activity, and at the same time, the dominance of transport, shifting the focus of this activity to the outskirts of the city. The skyscraper will not only help the second capital to move to a polycentric development model, but also attract significant investments, create new highly paid jobs, and create all conditions for business development.

Architectural solutions

St. Petersburg is a city of contours, not skyscrapers. All of its historical high-rise buildings - Admiralty Needle, Isaakievsky, Peter and Paul Cathedral - are the central points around which independent and integral architectural ensembles were lined up. Therefore, in order not to spoil the image of the city museum, it was decided to erect a skyscraper that housed the headquarters of the state concern Gazprom, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, away from historical buildings.

The tower is called to begin forming the "sea facade" of St. Petersburg. Its appearance does not conflict with the "face" of the city - the same theme of a lonely spire on the horizon, the aspiration to skyward, the contours of buildings, reminiscent of the shape of the ship's hull.

The "Lakhta Center" form is intended by architects to visualize the openness, lightness, freedom, flow of spaces and energy of the sea. The complex is striving to give the effect of weightlessness and organic unity with the surrounding city and nature. This will help in this particular type of insulating glass, which will allow the building to change its color depending on the mood of the sky.

What will be inside the complex

The popular name of "Lakhta Center" - the tower of Gazprom, is not entirely true. The "stuffing" project of the complex strikes with its multifunctionality:

• For office premises it is planned to allocate only 43% of the total area.
• 2,5 thousand m ² will be occupied by the medical center.
• 7 thousand m ² will be guaranteed to the children's scientific and educational center "World of Science", which will include lecture halls, laboratories, and an exploratory.
• The building is planned to open a planetarium in which 140 people can simultaneously observe the heavenly bodies.
• It is planned to erect a transforming multifunctional auditorium, designed for almost 500 people.
• 74-76 floors (330 m) are planned for a two-storey panoramic restaurant.
• At an altitude of 357 m above ground, on the 83-86 floor there is an observation deck equipped with powerful telescopes.
• The MFZ will allocate 1.5 thousand m ² for the exhibition space.
• The construction of an impressive amphitheater for 2000 places is also planned. On his stage with an area of almost 1.5 thousand m ² will be held various water shows.
• Part of the complex will also be a covered pedestrian bridge, which will connect the space "Lakhta-center" with the park of the 300th anniversary of the city.

Other characteristics

We will become acquainted with interesting technical and design features of the tower of Gazprom in St. Petersburg:

• The skyscraper stands on 264 piles, the diameter of each of which is 2 m, and the depth is 82 m.
• The reinforced concrete core is responsible for the stability of the tower.
• The horizontal rigidity of a skyscraper is achieved through outrigger floors - there will be 4 pairs in all. Outriggers will maintain the stability of the tower even if it loses 30% of its supporting structures.
• For the innovative three-dimensional curvature of the facades of the complex, the technology of cold-formed glass is responsible.
• The backlight of the "Lahta Center" is the light "pixels". Their color will depend on the season of the year.
• Utilize the waste will be an innovative vacuum debris removal system .
• Next to the complex, it is planned to open a metro station under the working name "Lahta".

Interesting Facts

Finally, let us look at the entertaining facts connected with the St. Petersburg tower:

• The concreting of the base plate of the basement of the skyscraper entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most voluminous continuous pouring of concrete in the world. It lasted 49 hours, for which 19 624 cubic meters of concrete were poured.
• The construction of the entire complex will cost 400 thousand cubic meters of concrete.
• The area of the glass surface of the tower will be 77 thousand m ² . The weight of each double-glazed window is more than 700 kg.
• In July 2016, the skyscraper became the tallest building in St. Petersburg. He could achieve this title in just 10 months.
• In August of the same year, "Lakhta Center" became the northernmost skyscraper in the world.

Surprisingly, Russia's highest skyscraper will be located in St. Petersburg, the city of contours. In addition to the height, the project "Lakhta-Center" strikes with its multifunctionality, well-thought-out concept and the organic nature of the architectural solution.